(1 reply)]]>oudomhttp://the-w.com/community-6x1-ladders
http://the-w.com/community-6x1-laddersTue, 17 Mar 2015 17:49:54 GMTIt thought it was really funny. The montages were great. I kind of figured I would be seeing the person at the end segment before the credits and the knock on NBC was funny like the season finale of Season 5.

(13 replies)]]>thecubsfanhttp://the-w.com/greendale-not-saved
http://the-w.com/greendale-not-savedFri, 09 May 2014 18:57:32 GMTI can not believe this show airs on national television.

Well, now it doesn't!

NBC has canceled the show after five seasons. They limbo-ed under the bar strong for four up fronts, but could bend no lower. There's many more distribution/funding outlets than five years ago and bad rating for NBC are still usable viewers for cable or Netflix or Amazon Prime or a Sony/Playstation exclusive content if we're spitballing here. They're not into the lava yet, but they're very warm.

(14 replies)]]>thecubsfanhttp://the-w.com/-community-5x12-basic-story
http://the-w.com/-community-5x12-basic-storyFri, 11 Apr 2014 01:54:50 GMTI liked this episode - I liked it more than last week, in part because I didn't have the nostalgia for GI Joe - but it's so committed to being so completely weird and kind of exclusive. The whole Abed plot of there being no story, and then totally committing to actually really not having a lot of plot for a big chunk of this story was amazing in it's simple existence. If you like this brand of comedy, which I do, it's fun, but anyone else who happened on this must've been offput. They're getting away with it and may yet get away with it for another season, how is this possible.

That meta randomness was juxtaposed with the rest of the episode all hoary old sitcom tropes for maximum weirdness. The place they all love is going away if they don't raise enough money!* Two on and off lovers decide to get married!** A new (historical) character all of the people is suddenly introduced and everyone pretends like he's existed all along and just hasn't been mentioned until now! Two characters suddenly discover they're related - oh, no, false alarm on that one. Maybe there's some buried treasure Brady Bunch episode I'm forgetting that should be included in here, or maybe Abed suggesting Buried Treasure is part of the super meta part. I dunno!

Community vaulted from one storytelling extreme all the way to the other, with some entertainingly wacky dancing and word defining in the middle. They're going out, this season or forever, very weird but it always stuns me how weird they can go.

* - trading the Clay Aiken appearance for Jared the Subway Guy** - until they obviously don't next week]]>Leroyhttp://the-w.com/community-5x11-gi-jeff
http://the-w.com/community-5x11-gi-jeffFri, 04 Apr 2014 22:09:46 GMTI can't really explain the awesomeness of this episode - from the mock 1980's G.I. Joe ads that slowly morphed over time into surrealism, to the slow disintegration of the G.I. Joe - Cobra rivalry to Abed dressed as the wrong kind of Indian... Indian... this has to be one of the most creative episodes of television in a long, long time.

I would probably put this on par with 'Modern Warfare', but it might be even more ambitious because they nailed SO MUCH of both the GI Joe cartoons and the 1980s toy culture that it's hard to know where to start.

I think I need to watch it a dozen more times to pick up on all the references I missed. Just amazing...

(6 replies)]]>oudomhttp://the-w.com/community-5x10-advanced-dungeons-dragons
http://the-w.com/community-5x10-advanced-dungeons-dragonsSat, 22 Mar 2014 08:44:55 GMTHowever, the next episode features a G.I. Joe crossover. (zap2it.com) Looks very cool but won't air until April 3rd and I will be in New Orleans for Wrestlemania 30... missing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the Game of Thrones Season 4 premiere.

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(5 replies)]]>JustinShapirohttp://the-w.com/community-5x8-app-development-and-condiments
http://the-w.com/community-5x8-app-development-and-condimentsFri, 07 Mar 2014 18:33:43 GMTInfinite MeowMeowBeenz to Mitch Hurwitz, completing the showrunner exchange program with Arrested Development. I was kind of disappointed that Tim Heidecker was underserved like a lot of the cameos from two episodes ago, but if there was only room for one of all those guest stars to truly spread their wings and soar, thank god it was allotted to Mitch for this supernova star performance.

Not to be overshadowed was Jeff's stand-up routine. Virtuoso chameleonship by J. McHale; died @ the bleeped out "sh*t."